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Site Pages
These sites were created for each contributing partner or as part of collaborative community projects through Maine Memory. Learn about collaborative projects on MMN.
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Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite
"Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite Hallowell viewed from Chelsea, Hallowell Chelsea Bridge, ca."
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Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies
"Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies Hallowell celebrates proudly!Hubbard Free Library Hallowell Celebrates It 250th Anniversary! The City…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Adelaide Pearson
"… and craftspeople to the area, creating the foundation for Blue Hill's growth as a cultural center after the Second World War."
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Historic Hallowell - The Johnson Shoe Bros.
"… found, A building made from wood with a brick foundation, Which was the start of a Hallowell sensation."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Market Hall, Bangor, 1846
"The foundation was completed, but the economic downturn of 1837 ended construction on the building. The market and public hall shown in Martin's…"
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Historic Hallowell - Our Journey Home
"… the importance of living by example -- were the foundations of the special quality of life that exists in Hallowell."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Library
"… donation from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, is the perfect place to sit for a spell and read the newspaper, chat with friends, or hold a…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - About This Project
"… Historical Society, under funding from a private foundation, to support community partnerships a few years after Maine Memory Network, which was…"
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Skowhegan Community History - Sister Communities
"… Historical Society, under funding from a private foundation, to support community partnerships in the first few years that Maine Memory Network…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners
"… 2010, and with generous support of the Leon Levy Foundation of New York, the Maine Memory Network's Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library
"Later the Carnegie Foundation donated 10,000 dollars toward creating a library building in Presque Isle. Thomas Phair provided the building site."
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Site Resources
"Print. Cole, Galen, et al. The Galen Cole Family Foundation and Cole Land Transportation Museum . New York, N.Y.: Newcomen Society of the United…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 3 of 3
"… had moved off the island and today only the foundation stones and remnants are all that remain of a once thriving community in Blue Hill."
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"… without molestation.” In a 1684 deed that is foundational to the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, six Wabanaki leaders, including Darumkin and…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Mills and Homes in Stockholm
"… lath mill (lath are thin strips of wood used as a foundation for layering plaster on the walls of houses). Red Row Houses, Stockholm, ca."
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Historic Hallowell - Nature's Bounty - Raw Material, Close at Hand
"… riverbank! Surface granite was worked to produce foundation stones, mill stones and door sills. Cornice stones for Boston's Quincy Market, for…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War Resources
"Brendan Wolfe, ed. 5 Apr. 2011. Web. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 7 Jun. 2012. Resources for Bangor and the Civil War"
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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5
"The foundation was made out of granite blocks, wood and posts and beams. The house was Victorian influenced and was one-and-a-half stories tall…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930
"The foundation was dug by hand when they had extra time. Milford Mott did the masonry work and Cal Staples was the carpenter."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview
"… Society extend deep gratitude to the Leon Levy Foundation and Maine Olmsted Alliance for supporting the Maine Architectural & Landscape Design…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall
"The Davenport Foundation was able to use this money for things like religious purposes, colleges, hospitals, libraries, and even orphanages."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire
"… a few years, new buildings sprang up on the foundations of the old, though this time they were hotels and motels and small inns, built in time to…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - About Us
"We have established a foundation that will allow this team to grow and allow this project to continue as we share the rich and dynamic history that…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 2 of 2
"Bangor, Galen Cole Family Foundation, 1992. Print. Curran, Mary H. comp. History of the old Bangor, Old Town, and Milford Railroad 1836 – 1869."